Beau Chateau Gift Cards and Box

Beau Chateau Gift Cards and Box

On Monday night I have a class scheduled to make a box and gift card enclosures.  The box is a Stampin' Up! Kraft Gift Box that is in the Holiday Mini Catalog(Click on the catalog to the right to see a copy).  Won't this make a nice gift for a friend, teacher or relative?  The box holds four 3x3 enclosure cards and envelopes for the cards.  My ladies will be able to pick out their own favorite DSP for this project.  Beau Chateau has been my favorite DSP in this year's catalog. 
Tomorrow I will be participating in the second Llama Blog Hop.  Stop by and see our Holiday goodies!

Recipe

Stamp:  Perfect Punches

Ink:  Versamark and Soft Suede

Paper:  Beau Chateau DSP, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette and Soft Suede Card Stock

Accessories:  Big Shot, Designer Frames Embossing Folder, Blossom Party Originals Die, Fun Flowers Bigz L Die, 3/16" Corner Punch, Extra-Lg Oval Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Mat Pack, Paper-Piercing Tool, Stamping Sponges, Melon Mambo Emboss Power, Heat Tool, Circle Fire Rhinestone Brad, Mini Square Envelopes and Kraft Gift Box

Blossom Party & Faux Cloisonne

I have been designing cards for my upcoming card buffet and wanted to share one with you.  My daughter, Luella, was with me for five days and we always have a great time together designing cards and making 3D projects.  I love this retired DSP and wanted a flower to show it off so it reminded me of the Blossom Party die, it is really sad that I have had this die for over a year and never used it. :(  But the great part of having a card buffet is that I am getting all of my DSP out and my dies and having a great time creating!

Blossom Party

Isn't it just too cute?  The next card we learned how to do Faux Cloisonne in our Technique class Thursday night and I have decided to add it also to the card buffet since I love how the butterflies turned out.  Do you have a lot of glossy catalogs or old Stampin' Up! Catalogs hanging around?  When I started cleaning out my stamp room last week, I couldn't believe how many I had still, but we put them to good use with this Technique.  First the cards:

Faux Cloisonne with Flores Suaves

Isn't the butterfly so lifelike?  It is from the Flores Suaves (Soft Flowers) stamp set.  First we found a picture in the colors we wanted to use for the butterfly, then rubbed over the image with the Embossing Buddy then stamped the image using Versamark, sprinkled on black Emboss Powder (you could also use gold or silver) then heated it with a Heat Tool.  Cut them out by hand and the paper ends up feeling like plastic and really takes a bend well.  This technique works well with open stamps (not a solid image) like this butterfly or a flower.  Check out my next post that qualifies for two challenges.